Karthik Mahadevan
Assistant Professor
Karthik Mahadevan is an Incoming Assistant Professor in Computer Science, and Core Faculty at Texas Robotics. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2025. Karthik’s research develops novel modes of interaction that help humans and robots establish, maintain, and evolve shared understanding. This work spans new interaction techniques, computational methods, and prototype systems, which he evaluates with end users. These efforts are guided by the belief that robots should adapt to people, not the reverse.
Research
Research Areas:
Research Interests:
Developing new computational methods for human-robot interaction
Creating novel interaction techniques to enable more intuitive HRI
Deploying and evaluating working robotic systems to end-users and evaluating their efficacy
Research Labs & Affiliations:
Enabling Robots to Act (ENACT)
Texas Robotics